Sief Allah H. has been in police custody for two days on suspicion of violating the War Weapons Control Act and “preparing a serious act of violence against the state.” Special police and fire units found the ricin during a raid of his home late on Tuesday.

Security services first became suspicious after H. ordered 1,000 castor seeds — the main ingredient for producing ricin — and a coffee grinder from an online store in mid-May, prosecutors said. He successfully produced the toxin in June. Read more